novelist
-

‘The project of Railsong is to excavate the somebodiness of everybody’: Author Rahul Bhattacharya
Sayari Debnath
-

‘Writing is a way for me to be in the deepest conversation with myself’: Author Sonora Jha
Jayanth Kodkani
-

‘A backdrop of geological time’: Gurnaik Johal on why his novel has the river Saraswati in it
Chaitanya Srivastava
-

‘I write novels of ideas, but the ideas have to be lived by characters’: Author Sanjena Sathian
Rohit Chakraborty
-

‘I’d prefer a just world where my novels have no relevance beyond questions of art’: Siddhartha Deb
Amrita Dutta
-

‘There have been nightmares. Those seem to be diminishing’: Salman Rushdie after his recovery
Scroll Staff
-

Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more
Dinah Birch, The Conversation
-

Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first novelist someone tried to assassinate without reading their book
Jonathan Bate, The Conversation
-

Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019): A writer both bawdy and lyrical, both irreverent and political
Scroll Staff
-

Danielle Steel writes for 20 hours a day. Four novelists weigh in on her gruelling work schedule
Sarah Corbett, The Conversation David Bishop, The Conversation Edward Hogan, The Conversation Liam Murray Bell, The Conversation
-

‘I prefer to be as little seen as possible’: Multiple award-winning novelist Anees Salim
Urvashi Bahuguna
-

Unfinished work of fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett destroyed by a steamroller
Scroll Staff